WFAA, WBAP, Popular Song, and Octavo Collections, 1890-1960

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WFAA, WBAP, Popular Song, and Octavo Collections, 1890-1960

1890-1960

https://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=180

The collection consists of thousands of published ensemble arrangements and sheet music for popular songs from roughly 1890 through the 1950s. Many items are also stamped for WBAP sister station KGKO.

831 boxes

eng, Latn

University of North Texas. Music Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11633114

University of North Texas. Music Library

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WFAA (Dallas, Texas)

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Former AM radio station in Dallas, Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas Online, the station existed from June 26, 1922 until its call letters changed to KRQX on July 2, 1983. The station existed in parallel with an FM counterpart beginning from 1947-1950 and 1958-1973, and WFAA-TV signed on in 1950. The radio station shared a frequency with WBAP in Fort Worth for much of its existence, with a cowbell famously signaling the daily changeover between stations....

WBAP (Fort Worth, Texas)

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Radio station in Fort Worth, Texas....

Hall, Gene, 1913-1993

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Gene Hall was born on June 12, 1913 in Whitewright, Texas. He started playing the C-melody saxophone in his youth before switching to alto saxophone. He studied music at what is now the University of North Texas between economic hardships and stints with traveling bands, ultimately playing with Floyd "'Fessor" Graham's stage band and completing a master's thesis that provided the foundation for the jazz studies program at UNT. In the mid-1940s, Hall worked as staff arranger for Fort Worth radio ...